In my first assignment, I chose to walk the streets of Harlem and visualize which parts had been gentrified vs. which parts had been left without any investment. After having our week 10 class on gentrification, I was able to find many comparisons pictures between the pictures on the lecture slides and the pictures that I took of...
Harlem
For my assignment, I chose to walk around different parts of Manhattan. I looked at parts of Upper Eastside Manhattan and Mid-Town Manhattan but I mainly focused on Harlem. Historically, Harlem has always been a predominantly poor area consisting of mainly African Americans. Today, that is not the case as many parts of Harlem...